conejo

See also: Conejo and conéjo

Spanish

Conejo común o europeo (common or European rabbit).

Hombre enseñando su conejo (man showing his contracted biceps).

Etymology

From Old Spanish conejo, from Vulgar Latin cuniclus, syncopated form of Latin cunīculus originally "burrow", from Ancient Greek κύνικλος (kúniklos), of pre-Roman (probably Iberian) origin; compare Basque untxi (“rabbit”). Compare Galician coello, Portuguese coelho, Italian coniglio, and English cony.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈnexo/ [koˈne.xo]

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• Rhymes: -exo
• Syllabification: co‧ne‧jo

Noun

conejo m (plural conejos, feminine coneja, feminine plural conejas)

1. rabbit, cony, coney (male or unspecified sex)

   Synonym: ñeco

   Hypernym: lagomorfo

   Hyponym: gazapo

2. (Central America) detective

   Synonym: detective

3. (Mexico, anatomy) a contracted biceps (having athletic or semi-athletic features, specially when exhibiting, intentionally or not)
4. (vulgar, slang) cunt (female genitalia)

Hyponyms

• conejo de los volcanes
• conejo europeo

 

Coordinate terms

• liebre

Derived terms

• conejar
• conejero
• conejillo de Indias
• conejito
• conejo de Angora
• conejo pintado
• diente de conejo

 

Descendants

• → Asturian: conexu
• → Cebuano: koneho
• → Galician: conexo
• → Papiamentu: koneu
• → Quechua: kunu
• → Tagalog: kuneho

Further reading

• “conejo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014